Arodys Vizcaíno | |||
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![]() Vizcaíno with the Atlanta Braves
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Atlanta Braves – No. 38 | |||
Pitcher | |||
Born: Yaguate, San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic |
November 13, 1990 |||
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MLB debut | |||
August 10, 2011, for the Atlanta Braves | |||
MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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Win–loss record | 5–6 | ||
Earned run average | 3.52 | ||
Strikeouts | 108 | ||
Saves | 19 | ||
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Arodys Vizcaíno (born November 13, 1990) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs.
Originally signed by the New York Yankees as an international free agent in 2007, Vizcaíno was traded to the Atlanta Braves after the 2009 season, and made his MLB debut on August 10, 2011, before a trade to the Cubs during the 2012 season. He was traded to the Braves for Tommy La Stella on November 16, 2014.
Vizcaíno signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent on July 2, 2007. He made his professional debut with the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Yankees of the Gulf Coast League in 2008, pitching to a 3-2 win–loss record, 3.68 earned run average (ERA), with 48 strikeouts and 13 walks in 44 innings pitched over twelve games. Vizcaíno pitched for the Single-A Short Season Staten Island Yankees of the New York–Penn League in 2009, going 2-4 with a 2.13 ERA in 10 games, all starts, and striking out 52 in 42 1⁄3 innings. After the 2009 season, Baseball America ranked Vizcaíno as the Yankees' third best prospect, rating his curveball as the best in the Yankees' organization, and projecting him to be the Yankees' fourth starter in their 2013 rotation.